inverses are a little trickier, a group is a monoid where every element in the set has a single inverse of it where when multiplied together you get the identity element, and inverses are commutative because an element is the inverse of it's inverse, so for a
if it's inverse is b
it means that a * b = i
and they're inverses of eachother so b * a = i
which means they're comutative so a * b = b * a = i